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This week, P1 have been learning about electricity. We talked about what electricity can do and discussed its importance in our daily lives. We were able to list lots of items that use electricity.
Today we worked with a partner to sort electrical items to show whether they are powered by batteries or by mains electricity. We know that electricity and batteries can also be dangerous and talked about how to stay safe around them.
P5 have been learning to understand why fruit and vegetables are good for our body. We have explored how they can be sorted into the colours of the rainbow with each colour having specific benefits to our bodies.  We learned that red fruits and vegetables can be good for our hearts and yellow provide vitamin C to help our immune system.  We have started some artwork to share our learning with you. Take a sneaky peek:
Please use the link below to see Primary 3’s musical performance of the ‘Jeely Piece’ song #effectivecontributors.
https://vimeo.com/679081718
Hi everyone,
During our short week back to school after the holidays, we have completed lots of fun and engaging learning activities.
Literacy: We have been working on our ability to read for information through our use of skimming and scanning techniques. We looked further into how to summarise information from a chapter in our class novel, where we focused on picking key phrases/words from the text to show our understanding.
Numeracy: We have been developing our knowledge of multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000. Mrs McConville began teaching us about perimeter and area this week.
Topic/IDL: We continued our topic of the Human Body – Body Systems where we looked further into the Skeletal system. We identified the key facts surrounding the Skeletal system and completed a task where we had to work collaboratively to name all of the bones in the body (this was tricky!).
Health and Wellbeing: We looked into gender stereotypes and ensuring that everyone is treated fairly and equally. We had many class discussions where we were able to listen to the opinion of others and express our own opinions.
Have a lovely weekend!
Welcome back everybody after our long weekend. We have been sharing stories about our weekend and our holiday highlights.
We have started a new class novel, Charlie and The Great Glass Elevator. We are enjoying reading the story and completing linked activities.
We have also been learning to measure and weigh different objects. Ask us about length, weight, volume and capacity.
Have a great weekend Primary 4!
Miss Hall 🙂
Primary 2/1 have been successful learners during phonics time. We have been building, reading and writing words with our new sounds. We are also becoming more confident at reading and spelling our common words.
This week, Primary 1 have been exploring textiles. We have enjoyed using wool to create pom poms and practise weaving.
Within maths, we have begun learning about data handling. We counted out different materials to create block graphs. We have also been practising subtracting numbers within 10.
During story time this week, we read Anthony Browne’s ‘The Tunnel’. We then created our own tunnels with blocks and used our imagination to write stories about what might be on the other side of a tunnel.
P5 started their new IDL topic ‘Forces’ this week. They started by looking at some exciting chain reactions where lots of  forces make mechanisms move. The favourite was the Rube Goldberg Page Turner. They then looked into different types of forces. The first one to be investigated was ‘friction’. A friction experiment using toy cars and elastic bands was conducted. The children used rulers to measure the amount of force needed to move the car on different surfaces. Many predictions were proven correct as less force was needed on smoother surfaces.
A great start to the week in Primary 5. We have been building on our writing skills, completing Information Reports about Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
We have also been sharing our Numeracy learning, creating a bank of multiplication strategies that we feel confident using.
Hello,
We have had a busy and fun week.
We started the week by celebrating Chinese New Year through different art activities. There were fantastic moving dragons made and beautiful pastel drawings of tigers.
In reading, we have continued to make and change our predictions as we read more of ‘Christophe’s Story’. Today we had a go at ‘hot seating’ where we have a chance to turn into the character and the rest of the class ask us questions. Well done to those who volunteered to have a go, they did really well!
In maths we have continued to explore more about fractions. We have been using the cuisenaire rods to represent different fractions. They have helped us to understand that the size of the fraction is smaller when the denominator is bigger as it has been split into more parts. We are becoming more confident in using the language: halves, quarters, thirds, fifths, sixths, etc. After watching a story called ‘The Lion’s Share’, we had a go at solving some fraction problems from the story. During this task we even started talking about sixty fourths and even smaller fractions! Take a look at some of our pictorial problem solving:
